Abstract:
A composite piston for an automotive air conditioning compressor is provided having an aluminum shank or piston rod, a reinforced plastic piston head and a steel ball for engaging a socket plate or the like. The shank has a distal end that has a slight reverse taper and a knurled surface for providing attachment to the plastic head that is molded thereon. The proximal end of the shank has a barrel to which the steel ball is press fitted. The shank is provided with a first collar adjacent the knurled distal end of the shank and a second collar adjacent to and intermediate the first collar and the proximal end of the shank. The first collar provides a seal for the mold cavity into which plastic is injected to form the piston head over the knurled surface of the shank. The second collar provides a support for the press fit operation of the steel ball onto the distal end of the shank.
Abstract:
Joined ceramic and metal is characterized by ceramic and metal thermally joined through an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is composed of 20-70% by weight of silver, 1-20% by weight of palladium, 10-60% by weight of nickel and 1-10% by weight of titanium. The joined ceramic and metal has sufficient joining strength both at normal temperature and at high temperature, because the joined ceramic and metal suffers little deterioration even at high temperature. Since the joined ceramic and metal has the characteristics of ceramic such as resistance to heat, corrosion and wear, it can be used for a structure operated at high temperature such as a gas turbine engine, a turbo charger rotor, a piston, a suction valve, and an exhaust valve.
Abstract:
A method of bonding a component in a piston, involves the steps of coating the component surfaces to be bonded with an oxidation-resistant particulate material, preheating the coated component, placing the preheated component in a casting die and then casting an aluminum alloy around the component. The casting technique may comprise squeeze-casting.
Abstract:
Pistons are described comprising a crown having an associated piston ring groove belt and which crown is supported by gudgeon pin bosses connected thereto by two generally axially extending planar webs which are orientated transversely to the gudgeon pin axis and also supported by at least one subsidiary support rib associated with each planar web and pin boss and which support rib extends in a generally axial direction between the crown underside and pin boss and generally transversely to the planar web. The piston may be of either articulated or monometal construction.
Abstract:
In order to achieve less deformation under gas pressure load and also under thermal load, the bottom piece of a piston with ring-carrying barrel is configured as a supporting cone tapering towards the piston pin and connected with the piston pin bosses by means of supporting elements. Cone, bosses and supporting elements are made in one piece. The supporting elements comprise walls extending essentially parallel to the axis of the piston pin. First distance (A) to the outer perimeter of the piston in the direction of the piston pin axis (Y--Y) are greater than the corresponding second distances (B) normal to this axis. The end parts of the walls are curved inwardly and leave open an area around an axis (X--X) normal to the piston pin axis.
Abstract:
An inner/outer cooling system for the cylinder of a piston combustion engine is provided by inner oil cooling and only the top part of the cylinder which is not reached by the inner cooling is cooled also by oil from the outside. The single steps are given by a special piston construction in a special very heat-sealed combustion system and through a special distribution of the cool oil spray in the combustion cylinder working.
Abstract:
In expansion-controlled light alloy pistons for internal combustion engines, expansion control elements made of steel are bonded to the carrying portions of the cast skirt on the inside peripheral surface thereof and are embedded in the hubs of the piston pin bosses. To provide for an optimum expansion control action throughout the height of the piston skirt, the expansion control elements are provided on both sides of the plane of oscillation of the connecting rod with an aperture, which is open toward the end of the skirt and has a height amounting to at least 30% of the height of the expansion control elements. Said aperture has a peripheral dimension amounting to more than 10% of the piston diameter. Projections for supporting the expansion control element at its edges defining the aperture protrude into the latter.
Abstract:
A vane used in a rotary compressor, and rotary compressor including the vane are made from a ferrous sintered alloy. The method comprises the steps of preparing metal powder mixture primarily containing iron, compacting the powder mixture to obtain a powder compact, sintering the powder compact to obtain a sintered body, subjecting sub-zero treatment to the sintered body, and tempering the sintered body. The sintered alloy product is used as a vane slidably disposed in a vane groove of the rotary compressor whose cooling medium is maintainable without deterioration of its property.
Abstract:
A piston pin made of ceramics is journalled in piston bosses of a piston made of aluminium alloy. Intermediate members are installed in bearing bores to receive therein terminal end portions of the piston pin. The intermediate members are made of metal which is intermediate in thermal expansion coefficient between the aluminium alloy forming the piston and the ceramics forming the piston pin.
Abstract:
A composite piston structure is disclosed which provides a simple and reliable means for joining a carbon-carbon or ceramic piston cap 11 with a metallic piston body 13. Attachment is achieved by means of a special geometry which compensates for differences in thermal expansion without complicated mechanical fastening devices. The shape employs a flange created by opposed frustoconical shapes 12 and 19 with coincident vertices 15 intersecting on the radial centerline of the piston in order to retain the piston cap. The use of carbon-carbon for the piston cap material allows a close fit between the piston and a cylinder wall, eliminating the need for piston rings. The elimination of extra mechanical parts of previous composite pistons provides a lightweight composite piston capable of extended high temperature operation.